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diff --git a/README.linux b/README.linux new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7607306bfc --- /dev/null +++ b/README.linux @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +$Id: README.linux,v 1.1 1999/08/31 06:09:25 gram Exp $ + +The standard libpcap compiled for Linux has a timeout problem. +If you use Ethereal with this libpcap on a not-so-busy network, at +times you will see that the Ethereal GUI freezes. It will freeze until +one more packet is received. + +As of version 0.4 of libpcap this problem still exists. This is the +version of libpcap that comes with the standard Linux distributions. +If the freezing really annoys you, you can apply a patch to the libpcap +source code. + +Libpcap can be obtained from ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov + +You can download the Linux patch at http://ethereal.zing.org/~gerald/ + |